After months of stupidly forgetting to cache Gibbz.com, I have finally added the super-cache plugin to the site. Users should see significantly faster load times.
-Jeremy
An Un-Scientific Comparison of Flash vs. HTML5
Following Apple’s announcement of the iPad on January 27th, an online battle erupted between those who sing the virtues of Flash and those who prefer HTML5. An opponent might say ”The iPad has no Flash? So much for the best web viewing experience.”, while a popular retort will read “Flash is dead. Time for the web to move into the future and support open standards.”
Yours truly is always in favor of open web standards in lieu of proprietary plugins, especially when that plugin is Flash. A resource-hog, unstable, and buggy, Flash has been woefully neglected on the Mac platform. It was so bad that when Apple was designing their Safari 4 web browser, they specifically sand-boxed each tab so that when (not if) Flash crashed, it would not take out the entire program. Throw in the fact that Adobe has yet to release a mobile version of Flash that doesn’t either crash the browser or drain the battery, it is no wonder that Apple did not embrace the technology on a mobile platform with limited resources.
After the break, I show an unscientific look at how Flash performs on Mac OS X in comparison to HTML5.
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A Compendium of iPad Reviews
Are you on the fence regarding the iPad? Perhaps you aren’t sure what it is all about? Well, today the hands-on tech review floodgates opened to answer any and all questions for consumers prior to this Saturday’s launch of the iPad.
David Pogue, New York Times:
And the techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on. For most people, manipulating these digital materials directly by touching them is a completely new experience — and a deeply satisfying one.
The bottom line is that the iPad has been designed and built by a bunch of perfectionists. If you like the concept, you’ll love the machine.
The only question is: Do you like the concept?
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iTunes 9.1 Released
Apple has released iTunes 9.1 ahead of this weekend’s launch of the iPad. Users can obtain the newest iTunes through Software Update or the iTunes download page.
Improvements in this version include:
- Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go
- Organize and sync books you’ve downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library
- Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes
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iPad 3G Countdown [Updated]
I got bored today. Generally when this happens, I do things that serve no other purpose than to waste time and entertain myself. Today was no exception.
As announced by Apple this week, my iPad 3G will finally arrive on Friday, April 30th. What better way to make that wait worse than by watching paint dry? I quickly threw together a Mac dashboard widget that counts down to 10:30 a.m. 3:30p.m. on April 30th (Indicated on FedEx tracking information)
If you have Mac OS X and are waiting on the 3G iPad, feel free to download and install my widget to make time pass even slower. Grab it here.
If you don’t have Mac OS X or don’t want to install a widget, check here.
[Update]: According to the FedEx tracking information for iPad 3Gs, the delivered-by time is listed as 3:30p.m. I have updated the widget and website accordingly.